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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...N. Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
...convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young man who has the air of being an actor in spite of himself, Richard Barthelmess has been in the show business most of his life. His mother, Caroline Harris, played in Biograph pictures at the old Fort Lee (N. J.) studios...
Jerome David Kern, composer of Who, Kalua, Old Man River, etc. etc., and publisher of many another lip-to-lip tune, is a wealthy man who lives comfortably in Bronxville, N. Y. But not until last week was he a free man. Mr. Kern's 44th birthday fell last week...
Iselin, who is seeded first in the State Championships, will find his hardest opponents in three former Harvard players. M. P. Baker '25 seeded second in the Massachusetts tournament, J. L. Pool '28, captain of last year's University squash team, and H. N. Rawl- ins '27, present national champion. O. E. Debevoise '26 is also a difficult opponent. The University team won the National Championship in 1925, 1926 and 1927 but failed to reach the semifinals last year...
...abolished the saloon; it has diminished the absence from the factory of workmen through drink, the waste of their wages on liquor, and the consequent suffering of their families." How could these things be if the drinking of liquor has gone on practically undiminished? Respectfully, Professor T. N. Carver...